“I’m on an organic beekeeping list of about 1,000 people, mostly Americans, and no one in the organic beekeeping world, including commercial beekeepers, is reporting colony collapse on this list,” said Sharon Labchuck. “The problem with the big commercial guys is that they put pesticides in their hives to fumigate for varroa mites, and they feed antibiotics to the bees. They also haul the hives by truck all over the place to make more money with pollination services, which stresses the colonies.”

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An apparently serious op-ed in today’s Hartford Courant says, let’s solve the troop shortage in the military by recruiting out of prisons, because, y’know, the inmates are just sitting around doing nothing anyway.

I’m guessing the Pentagon, even with their current greatly reduced standards for recruiting, might get a bit twitchy about using felons as soldiers.

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The organic emergence of terrorist groups, whose only connection to al Qaeda is through the media, shouldn’t come as a surprise. We will see this again and again. One reason is that in open source warfare, the barriers to entry are nearly zero. Anyone can participate. All you need to do in order to join, is to act.

Even if you are a dimbulb… But dimbulbs can do serious damage too. As many have pointed out, these clueless wannabes were caught by old-fashioned police work, not by Orwellian governmental monitoring. Since it was a solo operation, there is no food chain for police to work up to find the ringleaders. That is the nature of OSW.

More OSW. Chevron shuts down multiple operations in Nigeria due to attacks by insurgents. If Chevron is forced to keep them shut down for a while, or has to shut down more facilities, the price of oil will certainly rise.

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Lending Tree just laid off 20% of its workers with a company spokesperson saying the subprime correction has now spread to all categories of loans.

Wasn’t it just a few weeks ago the talking heads were saying the contagion wouldn’t spread?

This doesn’t just effect home sellers. Car sales are off, at least in part beause the HELOC money machine has stopped churning and people can not longer buy a new car by taking out more equity in their home, assuming prices will keep rising.

Contractors have less work, so does everyone in real estate. That’s not counting the  thousands who have already lost their jobs. More pain is coming too.

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Chevron will be using a fuel cell plant to generate clean power from restaurant grease and wastewater sludge, which otherwise would end up in landfills generating methane, a greenhouse gas. Now the methane will be used to create the electricity - without combustion.

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